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The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) [Hardcover]

Deborah Schiffrin (Editor), Deborah Tannen (Editor), Heidi E. Hamilton (Editor)

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September 14, 2001 0631205950 978-0631205951 1
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis.

  • Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.
  • Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse.
  • Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts.
  • Includes a varied range of theoretical models, such as relevance theory and systemic-functional linguistics; and methodology, including interpretive, statistical, and formal methodsFeatures comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.


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"The volume is intended as, and succeeds in being, both an authoritative guide to the field and a contribution to current research" Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol 39, 2003

"(T)he handbook with be a valuable source of information and inspiration for further research in discourse analysis in the context of modern language studies and in linguistics in general." The Modern Language Journal

"These are success stories that are bound to encourage researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds and national traditions to turn to discourse analysis as a viable methodological and theoretical framework." Social Anthropology

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The articles collected in this handbook comprise a foundational paradigm of discourse that is broad enough to support a wide range of assumptions, approaches, methods, analyses, & even definitions of discourse.

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mimetic props, anchoring poset, written expository registers, historical discourse analysis, poset relation, register perspective, praxis literature, register norm, preposed constituent, cohesive harmony, joint pretense, preposing constructions, discourse markers, discourse operators, pragmatic markers, heuristic abstractions, collaborative narration, strategic language use, mystery particles, discourse transcription, register variation, optimal relevance, intonation phrase, contextualization cues, discourse phenomena
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New York, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Journal of Pragmatics, John Benjamins, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mouton de Gruyter, University of Chicago Press, University of California, African American, United States, Harvard University Press, International Conference, University of Pennsylvania Press, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, American English, Communication Monographs, Georgetown University Press, Indiana University Press, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Biblical Hebrew, Chicago Linguistic Society, Journal of Linguistics
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